Can enemies PLEASE stop chasing us for miles?

[MsQi]

The biggest problem is that it's inconsistent with the rest of the world. This like Eureka feels like you are in a different universe, doing things that have little to no bearing on your "real life".

Personally I think the leash in the rest of world is a little too short. Somewhere in the middle would be best.

[DoH]

A lot would need to change to make this more engaging in FFXIV. For starters, slowing mounts so that you can't easily outrun everything. Also making enemies a lot more deadly so that random mobs are actually a threat 1 on 1. Having mobs chase you all over the zone on its own wouldn't bring back that same feeling. And would just open up the door to potential griefers kiting mobs around that people need for quests etc.

Wha....? They could easily fix this issue within Bozja simply by having the friendly NPCs actually do something (i.e., attacking any enemies that try to enter the camps) or by having entry into those camps act as a “trigger” to de-aggro any players who enter. There aren’t any quest monsters in Bozja, so I don’t see how this would be an issue or could be used to grief other players.

[PyurBlue]

People are complaining that FF14 is not dangerous enough.
When SE decides to make it dangerous in a side context, people likes you pop up.
I guess game company will always lose

They're not dangerous, all they do is follow you and slow you down. Adding an extremely simple behavior like this to enemies isn't interesting, if this was an attempt to make Bozja dangerous it's no wonder it's unpopular. If SE did something more creative it might have worked out better. Bozja is supposed to be a battlefield but it's really the same as everywhere else; giant field where a bunch of things stand around in seemingly random positions all day.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

If it helps you: line of sight



Majority of mobs in Bozja aggros you when you’re directly in their line of sight but stays docile when hang on their backside.
Take out their aggro range and you’ll end up hurting cluster & frags farmer.

[Krojack]

Surely it's obvious how annoying it is, and how hard it makes playing? Trying to join a skirmish in Bozja, or needing to mount up/teleport, and an enemy you JUST BRUSHED by absolutely miles ago is STILL taking chunks out of you. They could just chase you for a normal distance like in Warcraft? Why has it been designed so frustratingly?

This only happens in Bozja. It's to simulate how the game was in FF11 to an extent.

[Rhus]

Mobs in fates shouldn’t reset unless leaving the gate circle. Was doing a tiger fate for relic in Yanxia and couldn’t group them up as they would reset just before the middle spot. So frustrating. Like Tiger mob, can you please come stand here so I can kill you both together!?

[Jojoya]

The longer tethers makes sense in Bozja. You're not talking about wild creatures trying to protect the small area they've staked out for their territory. For those soldiers you're fighting in Bozja, all of the zone is their territory. Of course they're going to keep chasing after the enemy.

You could always just stop and kill what's chasing you if it's bothering you that much. Then it won't be chasing you anymore. Better yet, be smarter about where you ride instead of riding through mobs. It shouldn't take long to figure out which creatures aggro on sight and which on sound, then move around them accordingly.

[Riyshn]

I feel like the longer leash range made a lot more sense to Eureka's gameplay than Bozja's. In Eureka, a vital thing to learn was figuring out the aggro trigger for each enemy (sight/cast/blood/sound), and navigating accordingly because individual enemies were actually a threat. In Bozja, the gameplay loop of "run between FATEs" means you don't actually care if you pick up something unintended, because you can just run it to the middle of your destination FATE and someone will pull it off you with their AoE.

[Chigo_Sensei]

It's the opposite for me, I don't mind the chase in Eureka/Bozja, those places are supposed to be dangerous, and it helps when you're in a Cluster/Frag farm pt, that being said maybe make teleport camps a safe zone

On the other hand, the chase in the overworld zones is not dangerous, just plain annoying, and keeps you from changing classes when your queue pops or from teleporting to catch an S rank, and to make it worse they increased the lvl aggro range a while ago, it used to be only 6 levels lower or so, now it's Idk maybe 10-11

[StriderShinryu]

I don't mind it being a little more vigorous pursuit than the norm, but it just does get kind of stupid in Bozja at times. It doesn't need to be eliminated but it should be a little toned down.